Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Stewart

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
November 11, 2016
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MEDTNER, NIKOLAI
    • PERFORMER
      Paul Stewart
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 11, 2016
    • UPC
      747313961825
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP618
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    2. No. 2 in D Minor, "Sonata-Elegy"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    3. No. 3 in C Major

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    4. I. Allegro abbandonamente

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    5. II. Andantino con moto

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    6. III. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    7. I. Pastorale: Allegretto cantabile

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart

    8. II. Allegro moderato e cantabile (sempre al rigore di tempo)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Paul Stewart


Nikolay Medtner’s 14 piano sonatas are considered the most significant achievement in this genre by any composer since Beethoven. After the success of his First Piano Sonata (GP617) he turned to Goethe for inspiration, and the life and love-affirming Sonata-Triad Op. 11 translates the poet’s words of passion, suffering and redemption into sound. The capricious, mysterious and beautiful Sonata-Skazka is a masterpiece in miniature and was once Medtner’s most performed work. Dating from his years of exile, the eloquent themes of the fourteenth and final Sonata-Idyll linger long in the memory.